It Is In The Heart. Quotes
Like the teens I worked with, I understood the need for miracles--they kept reality from paralyzing you
The past haunts the present in more ways than we think. It certainly scares the living daylights out of ME"~ Old Wrinkly
You can only look forward to a South Dakota winter if, as with childbirth, remodeling a house, or writing a novel, you're able to forget how bad it was the last time.
Do you think courage means being fearless? Or daring? Courage, real courage, is taking three steps when it terrifies you.
Every major accomplishment in a man's life requires a major level of commitment.
Pain can either thrust me into the arms of Jesus or make me turn my back on Him. Either way, it's a choice.
Having the right attitude is fundamental to being an effective leader.
You’ll tell yourself anything you have to, to pretend that you’re still the one in control.
As you can see marriage is about putting away selfishness and taking on the concept of teamwork.
Communication is not so much about what you say, as what you don't say.
Effective leaders allow God to shape them into the kind of people they need to be for each situation they encounter.
You can lead with or without a title. If you wait until you get a title, you may wait forever.
If you didn't have me to rake you over the coals now and then, there wouldn't be any fire in your life at all.
I knew what it was like to lose someone you loved. You didn't get past something like that, you got through it.
The purpose of a spiritual discipline is to give us a way to stop the war, not by our force of will, but organically, through understanding an gradual training.
The key to cultivating confidence in ourselves is understanding our right to make the truth our own.
Horror was rooted in sympathy . . . in understanding what it would be like to suffer the worst.
The best way to encourage your children is to let them know you are praying for them.
There is no substitute for your impassioned prayers on behalf of your children
With each beat, the heart pumps nearly three ounces of blood into the arteries--seventy-five to ninety gallons an hour when the body is at rest.
Buried beneath disappointment and fear, anger and pride, I just might find it in my heart to forgive.
The soul of a child is the loveliest flower that grows in the garden of God.
Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.
Compassion grows in us when we know how the energy of love is available all around us.
Would you give up your vengeance against someone you hate if it meant saving someone you love? Would you want your dreams to come true if it meant granting your enemy's dying wish?
There ain't a man in the world cares about a woman's past until he's thinking of her in his future.
Tomorrow's leaders will not lead dictating from the front, nor pushing from the back. They will lead from the centre - from the heart
Every person under the sound of my voice is a soldier. You are either fighting for your freedom or betraying the fight for freedom or enlisted in the army to deny somebody else freedom.
Why should the killers of the world be "the future" and not us?
The belief that we are deficient and unworthy makes it difficult to trust that we are truly loved
I was manipulating my inner experience rather than being with what was actually happening.
The moral of the tale is, don't live for the approval of others. The real you is here to find out the secret of life, not t satisfy someone else's opinion.
I found myself praying: "May I love and accept myself just as I am.
The grand prize in us versus them is that somebody gets to feel special for a while. The grand prize in the game of unity is that everyone gets to feel special forever.
If we practice walking meditation, we walk just for walking, not to arrive.
Equanimity means to let go, not to abandon.
Forgive because it makes you feel good.
In anguish and desperation, I reached out as I had many times before to the presence I call the Beloved. This unconditionally loving and wakeful awareness had always been a refuge for me.
This is Buddhist meditation-to penetrate, to be one with, in order to really understand.
When someone says to us, as Thich Nhat Hanh suggests, "Darling, I care about your suffering, " a deep healing begins.
Do not lose yourself in the past. Do not lose yourself in the future. Do not get caught in your anger, worries, or fears. Come back to the present moment, and touch life deeply. This is mindfulness.
In the light of Buddhist meditation, love is impossible without understanding.
Stop looking for flaws, and kindness come much more easily.
They had lied, those who had extolled the virtues of love—its pleasures, its sublimity—those who had told her that it was beautiful and worthwhile.There was nothing beautiful abo
Nothing made you realize how much you’d been ignoring your heart, until someone came along and smacked it awake simply by existing.